Subjectivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Reading Reconsidered: Making Students Better Readers In and Out of School (Grades 3-12)

Of the topics taught in school, reading is the first among equals: the most singular in importance because all other subjects rely on it. But it is also among the most complex topics to teachfor educators and for parents. In this session, Doug Lemov (MBA 2004)... View Details

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By: Robert J. Dolan

Professor Dolan's research interests including product policy and pricing. These areas have been the subject to two books, Managing the New Product Development Process and Power Pricing:How Managing Price Impacts the Bottom Line. In addition, he works on the societal... View Details

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

We introduce a new family of fairness definitions that interpolate between statistical and individual notions of fairness, obtaining some of the best properties of each. We show that checking whether these notions are satisfied is computationally hard in the worst... View Details

March 2006 (Revised April 2006)
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International Place (A): Boston Real Estate Playoff

First International Place, one of Boston's premier office buildings, was the subject of a control contest in 2005, as the New York real estate firm Tishman Speyer purchased the mortgage on the property through a sealed bid auction process and then sought to foreclose... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Mortgages; Auctions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy

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28 Oct 2012
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The Perils of Feeding a Bloated Industry

16 Dec 2012
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Not all money market funds are equal

31 Aug 2017
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Google And Microsoft Can Use Ai To Extract Many More Ad Dollars From Our Clicks

30 Jun 2013
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Accounting rule change undermines US banks

14 Feb 2017
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Senate Conflicts Aren't New — And They Used To Be Much Bloodier

August 2021
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Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News

By: Kate Barasz and Serena Hagerty

Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the research... View Details

Keywords: Decision Avoidance; Difficult Decisions; Judgment And Decision Making; Medical Decision-making; Decision Making; Behavior

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Accuracy First: Selecting a Differential Privacy Level for Accuracy-Constrained ERM

By: Katrina Ligett, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, Bo Waggoner and Steven Wu

Traditional approaches to differential privacy assume a fixed privacy requirement ϵ for a computation, and attempt to maximize the accuracy of the computation subject to the privacy constraint. As differential privacy is increasingly deployed in practical settings, it... View Details

Keywords: Differential Privacy; Empirical Risk Minimization; Accuracy First

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12 Mar 2015
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What Courses Should Law Students Take? Harvard’s Largest Employers Weigh In

Keywords: by John C. Coates, Jesse M. Fried & Kathryn E. Spier; Legal Services; Education

08 Dec 2023
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MENARC: Research & More

28 Sep 2010
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Interview with Jay Light

10 Oct 2010
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Power Poses: Certain positions boost testosterone & confidence

28 Mar 2019
HBS Seminar

Gabriel Weintraub, Stanford University

26 Oct 2011
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Portrait of Former Dean Jay Light Unveiled in Baker Library

September 2003 (Revised October 2010)
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A Pain in the Hip

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer

Describes in detail the process of diagnosing the cause of a sore hip in a young girl. Referred to the emergency room by her pediatrician, the child is subjected to a set of diagnostic tests over a two-day period, each designed to reduce the uncertainty surrounding the... View Details

Keywords: Production; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Health Industry

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